Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 10: Jammu Kashmir Reserved Categories Employment Alliance (JKRCEA) today sought the intervention of Lt Governor appealing him to direct authorities to either apply roster while affecting OPG/DPC promotions or stop all promotions till final disposal and decision in this regard.
The demand was made at a joint press conference by the representatives of JKRCEA here. They said initially the ‘status quo’ and ‘stay’ of Apex Court’s order were deliberately misinterpreted by the officers. Subsequently, Presidential order extending 77th Constitutional amendment to JK UT dated 01-03-2019 was not given any heed by the bureaucracy. Finally abrogation of Article 370 and protection of Reservation Act of 2004 in Jammu & Kashmir Reorganization Act was also ignored by the officers.
Prof. G.L. Thapa working president of JKRCEA said that the JKUT officers have created total confusion in the matter of reservation in promotions. They never took the matter seriously and rather played with the career of SC and ST employees. The delay in implementation of Supreme Court directives of Stay Order, Presidential Order provisions of J&K Reorganization Act have caused irreparable damage to the SC and ST employees and this depicts their caste based mind set of the upper caste officers lobby. He further said that the harassment against employees of SC and ST communities is also seen while transferring them repeatedly in remote areas making service conditions more and more hostile for them.
He said before abrogation of Article 370, these communities were a little bit protected under the shadow of being Muslim majority State but after that these communities suffered more harassment.
Sham Lal Basson, Member presidium of JKRCEA said the employees of SC and ST communities in JK are feeling betrayed. All the administrative secretaries are affecting both OPG and DPCs promotions of different cadres without giving benefit of reservation in promotions which is a Constitutional provision. There are instances when junior upper caste employees in the promotional cadre are being promoted over and above SC and ST employees who are senior to them by three to five years. The Constitutional provisions after abrogation of Article 370 are being floated without any check and balances. The LG who is Constitutional head must see to it and direct the officialdom for remedies, he added.
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